For our next Three Questions interview, we spoke with Christina G., Special Project Librarian.

What areas can you help MSK users with?

Christina enjoying an NYC souvenir shop.

I work directly with Synapse, the Library’s authoritative database of MSK authors and their publications.  Synapse houses publications produced by MSK’s researchers, clinicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals and arranges them by author profiles. I can provide assistance to users who are interested in learning how to use and navigate Synapse, as well as help MSK authors update their profiles.

What projects have you been working on recently?

The Synapse team tracks and adds new publications by MSK authors into the database on a monthly basis, importing bibliographic records from Scopus, Web of Science, BIOSIS Citation Index, CINAHL, and PsycINFO. However, this requires the Synapse team to cross-reference these records with original PDFs to ensure the data were adequately imported and missing data, such as PMIDs and PMCIDs, are included. We also use information from MSK’s Human Resources to ensure we associate each publication with the correct MSK author’s profile. The process is vigorous, therefore I spend most of my time working on this!

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?

I unfortunately haven’t traveled as much as I would like to so I would be happy to go literally anywhere in the world. The only requirement I ask is that it is somewhere with a beach since I love swimming and the ocean.